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1. THE WOEK OF WINNING SOULS, A WISE ONE: 

AND 

2. THE SPIRITUAL HELP WHICH A CHURCH GIVES TO ITS MINISTER. 



TWO SERMONS 



PREACHED IN 



t§>ljp (Jljtirrlj of f|p pilgrims, 



BROOKLYN, N. Y., 



November 18, 1866, 



ON THE COMPLETION OF 



Tumrttj ^Tsars ni pastoral ISmrisB; 



By RICHARD S. STORRS. Jr., D. D., 



Printed toy Reci.-u.est. 



BROOKLYN: 

THE UNION 1 ' STEAM PRESSES, NO. 10 FRONT STREET 

1866. 



NOTE. 

Foe, the preservation of the first of the following discourses, which was 
delivered extemporaneously, I am almost wholly indebted to the notes of 
the Reporter. 

Neither this, nor that which follows it, was prepared with any reference 
to its publication through the press. But as a desire for such publication 
has been expressed by those who heard the sermons, I am happy to have 
it gratified, — particularly as it gives me the opportunity to put on record, 
in this permanent form, my most grateful and affectionate regard for the 
Church and Congregation to which it has so long been my privilege to min- 
ister, in the hope and service of the Gospel. 

R. S. STORRS, Jr. 
Brooklyn, Nov. 24, 1866. 



MORNING SERMON. 

$ro&erbs, IX : 30, (fast Clause.) 
"and he that winneth souls is wise.' 



One cannot but be impressed, in his observation of 
human affairs, as these go on in society around him, 
with the transient ness which belongs to many of the 
enterprises in which men are engaged, and to which 
their hearts are most eagerly given. The law of change 
is alone unchangeable. Mutation, precariousness, per- 
tain to everything which we meet in the world; to 
every institution which we establish, that is not 
philanthrophic or religious in its relations ; to every 
enterprise which we set on foot, that has not a moral 
end to serve. 

A man accumulates a splendid property, by skill, by 
industry, by enterprise and economy. It looks solid 
and stately, when he has gained it ; and he expects it 
to continue while he lives, to be admired, by others, to 
be enjoyed by himself, and to minister to his household 
comfort and cheer. But we know that sudden com- 



mercial disaster may sweep against it with irresistible 
energy, may break it in pieces, and scatter the glitter- 
ing fragments of it across the land. And we know 
that even if no such commercial disaster comes, Death 
will ere long take him away from it, and that it will 
pass inevitably then into other hands, to be dispersed 
where his will can no longer control, where even his 
mind can no more follow, its successive distributions. 

Or one builds a stately and ornamented house, in 
which to dwell, hoping to abide there himself while 
he lives, and to have his children abide there after him, 
when he has gone from these scenes of time. But the 
house to which he has given so much, of time, of 
thought, of the outlay of money, sometimes falls 
while he lives, before the changing enterprise of the 
city. The pleasant street in which it was built — filled 
with residences at the time it was built — becomes a 
street for busy traffic; and the house, so stately and 
splendid in its season, is leveled with the dust to make 
room for commercial structures, or is so changed for 
other uses, that I13 who built would fail to recognize it. 
And even if no such change takes place, it crumbles 
after a while; and when a few years have passed over 
his grave, its very stones, though outlasting himself, 
will have turned into dust, its solid timbers will have 
rotted. 

So when one suggests a new theory in science, and 
publishes that in volumes to the world : a great ini- 



pression may be made by it for the time on the minds 
of thoughtful and studious men. But it is singular to 
see how, with the rarest possible exceptions, within a 
few years the theory that looked plausible and satis- 
factory at the outset, has ceased to hold in allegiance 
to itself the minds of its students, and they have 
passed on, better instructed by other theories, to the 
larger view of the ampler system of which it showed 
but a partial conception. Or another devotes himself 
to the establishment of some special policy in the State, 
which seems to him to be right in itself, and for the 
advantage and interest of the State, in whose welfare 
and progress he is concerned. And after a little, when 
another generation has come upon the stage, and other 
questions have grown prominent and paramount, the 
policy to which he devoted so much of labor, of time, 
and of political skill, is found to have been wholly 
removed from the sphere of men's action and thought. 
It has simply passed away from their view, silently as 
the morning cloud ; and the questions around which the 
minds of citizens surged and wrought so vehemently 
aforetime, have ceased to be questions appealing to 
them; the policy which the statesman sought so ear- 
nestly to develope and establish, is now a mere matter 
of historical interest, in which only the curious student 
of the Past finds any attraction. 

So, everywhere, change is written on all the enter- 
prises which men inaugurate, and all the establish- 



merits which they seek to build. And the question 
rises with a new emphasis : Is there any work which, 
when done, will remain % Is there anything which 
exists on the earth so substantial, and so enduring, that 
an effect produced upon it will stand, abiding and 
permanent as itself? And the answer is suggested by 
the words of the text : " He that winneth souls is wise." 

The personal soul is the one thing which continuously 
and immortally lives; which outlasts the body; which 
lives when the stately house has fallen, and the splen- 
did fortune has been scattered ; which lives when the 
theory that once was accepted has been surpassed and 
forgotten, and the policy of the statesman has passed 
from men's sight ; which outlasts even the world itself, 
and the stars in heaven, on which the earth is poised 
and hangs ; which lives while God himself continues, 
and while his government continues to be exercised 
over intelligent moral beings. And he who devotes 
himself to accomplishing a work upon this personal 
human soul — that shall be for its essential welfare 
— undertakes a work that must be enduring and not 
brief; a work that must abide in its fruits when all 
the precarious enterprises of man, whereby he is sur- 
rounded, shall have come to their gradual or sudden 
termination. 

To make more obvious the permanence and the 
greatness of this spiritual work, observe what it is 
which is implied in the welfare -the ultimate, endur- 



ing, and consummate welfare — of the soul, as it exists 
to-day and here, in you and me. There are four things 
implied in this, each of which we may briefly notice. 

The first is : the reconciliation of that soul with 
God, its author, and moral governor ; the reconcilia- 
tion of it with Him, through faith in Christ and repent- 
ance from sin. 

There is in every human heart a consciousness, more 
or less distinct, but central always as its own life, of 
alienation from God. This does not come out to any 
vivid exhibition in the ordinary run of human affairs, 
and the common experiences through which men pas?. 
But it comes to even such an exhibition now and then 
—as when one contemplates Death, for example, as 
standing immediately before himself; that Death 
whose secret of terror is that by it the spirit is dislodg- 
ed from the body, and is made to enter the presence of 
God, and to come for its judgment to his tribunal. In 
the instant expectation of this, one becomes aware, if 
he was not before, that the soul in himself is divorced 
from God. It shrinks from entering the presence of 
the Infinite. And there is the patent and unanswer- 
able proof of its inner moral alienation from him. 
For there could be no other privilege so grand, no 
other opportunity so supreme, to the created human 
spirit, as this of entering the presence of its Creator, if 
it were essentially in harmony with him. 

How we value the privilege that comes with the 



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occasional opportunity of converse with some imperial 
human mind, or some all- accomplished human scholar ! 
the privilege that comes with the opportunity of stand- 
ing in personal communion for a little with a mind 
characterized by extraordinary genius, whose words 
are as beams of irradiating light, to illumine and inspire 
our duller intellect ! But surely there is no privilege 
of this kind for an instant to be compared with, which 
does not differ infinitely from, the privilege of standing 
in the presence of God, whose eternal mind has planned 
and built the universe itself, and from whom we must, 
as intelligent beings, derive a constant and glorious 
inspiration, through every touch of his soul upon 
ours ! When then men shrink from entering his pres- 
ence, they show the consciousness, living within them, 
of a central alienation from him ; and so they show, 
without thinking of it perhaps, that the first and 
deepest want of their soul is this of reconciliation with 
him. 

There can be no real welfare for man until this in 
some way has been accomplished. It matters not what 
properties we accumulate, or what influence and power 
we wield in society. It matters not what delightful 
circumstances, and social relations, we gather around 
ourselves on the earth; what ships, sailing upon the 
ocean, own ns as masters; what railroads, sweeping 
across the continent, run on our errands and carry our 
goods, jo every point; or what other appliances and 



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mechanisms of art, furnished by genius, we can com- 
mand to do our bidding. It matters not at all what 
we may gain, and hold, and enjoy, of this world's 
wealth. There is no real prosperity possible to him 
whose soul is not reconciled to God, — so that he has 
ceased to be afraid of Death ; so that Death is now 
full to him, not of threat and not of terror, but of 
precious invitation ; so that his immortality is secure^ 
and is certain to be glorious, through the harmony of 
his spirit with that of Him who made and who will 
judge him. 

I put it to you as reasonable men, and reasonable 
women : there is no essential prosperity possible to 
the immortal soul in man, until it has thus become re- 
conciled to God ! You may be walking in the show 
and in the reality of wealth; you maybe rejoicing in all 
the experience of pleasure in the world — delighting 
yourselves in the charms of art, in the beauties of na- 
ture, in the manifold joys of friendship and society, 
feasting your minds on the luxuries of literature, gath- 
ering pleasure and culture to yourselves from every 
quarter, and every source — and you are after all, at 
the centre and essentially, an unprosperous man, an 
unsuccessful, imperiled woman, until, by faith in the 
Lord Jesus Christ, you are reunited in spirit unto God ! 
You cannot think of him as he is, and of yourselves as 
his rational creatures, without feeling this. There is 
no real welfare, till that is secured. The stellar uni- 



verse, compressed into one bright circlet of gems, and 
worn to-day upon your forehead, could not make one 
of you tranquil or rich until you were conscious of this 
attainment. 

And Christ has come to bring the offer, and open the 
way, of such a reconciliation to God; to put the means 
of it into our hands ; to shed abroad the joy that comes 
with it, through our disturbed and anxious hearts. 
And he who "winneth souls" to Christ, secures for 
them this first element of their welfare. 

But then, beyond this, it is necessary, secondly, that 
there be a development and culture in us of the 
God-like character, in order to the true well-being 
of the soul ; such a development and culture of this 
character as will naturally be based upon this recon- 
ciliation with God, through faith in His Son. And 
he who works on the soul for its good contributes also, 
and equally, to this. 

To know what such a character is, we have first to 
know the character of Christ, as it was exhibited in 
his life on the earth. We do not find it fully re- 
vealed to us anywhere else. You point me to the 
universe around me, and above, and I admire the wis- 
dom that has planned it, the might that has established 
it, and the will that carries it forward in its sweep, 
without a singlejar or break, from age to age. But I 
see nothing in all this universe of thai tender and in- 
timate sympathy with man — in the feebleness, the suf- 



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fering, and the peril lie experiences — which was re- 
vealed in the Son of God, when he took little children 
in his arms, and blessed them ; when He stood at the 
grave of Lazarus, and wept there. The showers that 
fall in their shining "beauty out of the skies — dropping 
upon the earth in its spring-tide, and giving brightness 
to the blossom, and fruitful life to all the scene — they 
come as blessings descending upon the earth, and we 
may well be grateful for them. But they are not tears 
of personal sympathy, falling upon us from the eyes of 
Omnipotence. They are the fluent crystal jewels, scat- 
tered from the casket which is full of such treasures. 
But when I see the Lord himself, who has all might 
and government in his hand, standing before the grave 
of his friend, and weeping there — it is more to me 
than all spring showers ! For there is the spirit, not 
of wisdom alone, or of bounteous compassion, but of 
tenclerest sympathy, behind the tears; and my heart 
swells and melts as I read of it. 

So nowhere in the material universe do we see de- 
clared, in its most complete and impressive exhibition, 
that infinite love which was in Christ toward the 
world of mankind; that love which led him even to 
the cross, and the sacrifice of himself, for our advantage. 
All other manifestations, therefore, of that which is 
really Divine in character, are pale and poor by the 
side of this. You tell me of the Southern Cross, lift- 
ing its stars in the sky that bends beyond the horizon ; 



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and that shall be to me a symbol perhaps, almost a 
foreshadowing, but it never is the parallel, of this cross 
upon Calvary. This shines with no starry splendor 
upon the earth. Over it was gathered, rather, the 
shrouding of a supernatural darkness, from the sixth 
hour to the ninth. But the lesson that comes from it 
is the grandest and most precious the world has heard. 
The cross lifted among the stars, in those yet unseen 
Southern skies, tells of the power of him who built it. 
But the cross so stained, and dark, and bloody, that 
was lifted on Calvary, tells of the infinite and un- 
searchable love in the heart of him who hung upon it. 
From this we get views, therefore, which we cannot 
from any part of the universe that sweeps its radiant 
circles above us — which we cannot from even the soul 
of man, to which this outward is the setting/ — of the 
character of God ; not of his infinite righteousness, only, 
but of his eternal and measureless love; of his sym- 
pathy with the suffering; of his incomparable and un- 
conquerable patience, toward even those who sin 
against him. 

And it is not till a character harmonious with this 
has been developed and cultivated within us — till we 
have throned in our own souls the rio-hteousness and 
the love, the sympathy and the patience, which arc in- 
finite in Clod — it is not till then that the welfare of tin 1 
soul, living and personal, and made in his image, lias 
been secured. Christ alone lullv reveals to us this 



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character. He alone helps us, by his truth, his example, 
and the gift of his Spirit, to reproduce it in ourselves. 
And he who wins a soul to Him has thus again aided 
to secure for it the essential well-being which it needs, 
and which, when gained, shall be as immortal as itself! 

But we need of course to add another, a third ele- 
ment — as also implied in the consummate and enduring 
welfare of the soul— the development within it of 
its God-like powers : the development of these pow- 
ers in such a way, and to such a degree, that it shall be 
fitted for the largest operation, the grandest offices, 
that can be ever opened to it. This must also be 
gained through Christ. And he who leads a soul to 
Him, does for it in this regard what no other could. 

There is a reserve of power in the soul, that never 
apj)ears till the time of some great crisis has come ; that 
possibly never appears at all, on this side of eternity. 
Did you ever seriously think of the fact that the power 
of enjoying the beauty of a statue, the power of appre- 
ciating the glory of architecture in some immense and 
majestic cathedral, the power of feeling, enjoying, 
appreciating, the witchery of some charming poem, the 
lyric or the epic — that this familiar and customary 
power, of which so often we are conscious, may be 
really a power, when the germ that lies in it has been 
developed, of creating that which now it admires? 
Its tendency is to arise to that. So there are hidden 
moral forces, as well as mental, that do not come out 



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until some great emergency in experience awakens and 
shows them. How often do we see, thus, the timid, 
retiring, and sensitive woman, who has been accustom- 
ed wholly to depend upon companions and friends for 
support, in the front of some terrific disaster, when 
Death stands imminent, remaining serene, and utterly 
self-poised, while all around are shrinking in affright ; 
or, in the hour of unexpected and appalling adversity, 
standing, not stunned but keenly sensitive, and fully 
alive to the facts she has to meet, yet not excited on 
the other hand, but calm and tranquil in the midst of 
the adversity — showing a central might in her spirit, 
which we should never have imagined to belong to it; 
which was not realized even to her consciousness, and 
would not have been, except for such a tremendous 
experience. 

Now when you look at these forces in their germ, 
who shall say to what height of development they may 
not amid immortality arise ? Quickened even here by 
the truth, the grace, and the spirit of Christ, and here- 
after set free from their present limitations, in the 
realms which he has prepared for his people, there 
seems no term conceivable by us which they may not 
arrive at and surpass. You take the grandest human 
soul that you have known, or have read of in history 
— the most masterly mind, or the most supreme and 
electrifying will, that lias come within the circle of 
your observation, or that has shed its lustre 4 heretofore 



17 

on the annals of the race, — and that after all but gives 
you a hint of what you may yourself become, and 
shall assuredly by-and-by become, if your powers are 
unfolded and cultured as they may be, as they must 
be to the consummate well-being of the soul. As the 
Apostle John saith: "It doth not yet appear what 
we shall be." You take the poet, in that hour of 
ecstasy, when his imagination glows and is exalted, 
and when his tongue is touched and loosened with a 
strange inspiration — when words come twin-born with 
the thoughts that are luminous and high, and the sylla- 
bles which to you are difficult flow chiming in music 
from his entranced transfigured lips — and even that 
marvel of mental experience doth not show us fully 
what we may become ! At some time or other, if 
Christ hath done his work in us, the state we reach 
may so far transcend this, that it shall have been but 
a distant prophecy of what we know in realization. 
And no other mental or moral attainment ever vet 
accomplished on earth can show us, more than by 
partial hints, what we ourselves may through the Son 
and the Spirit of God aspire to reach. 

We must gain this, then, — this amplest development 
which is possible for us, — in order to our complete well- 
being. No matter what treasures of wealth we have, 
nor what pleasures we enjoy, I submit to you all that 
the immortal welfare of the soul, supreme and consum- 
mate, will Dever have been realized till these things 



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are accomplished in it, and accomplished for it ; till it 
is reconciled with its Maker, through faith in Christ, 
and repentance from sin; till in it has been developed 
and cultivated a God-like character, such as was re- 
vealed, present and personal, through the incarnation 
of Christ, and through his subsequent work and suf- 
fering ; till there have been unfolded in it those grand- 
est faculties, not as yet fully revealed, in which the con- 
dition and the basis are shown of a glory that we can- 
not yet comprehend ; till we have thus become pre- 
pared for the largest operation, the grandest offices, 
which even immortality shall open to us ! All this is 
implied in God's amazing constitution of our being. 
And he who wins a soul to Christ, sets it forth on its 
progress toward this attainment ; a progress to which 
no reach of our thought can fix a limit. 

And fourthly, and finalty, as the fruit of all these, 
comes the last element now to be specified as essential 
to the perfect well-being of the soul : a constant, sw eet, 
and immortal Felicity, in the presence of God, in sym- 
pathy witli him, and with the Seraphim and the 
Saints Avho are gathered about him; a felicity that 
shall flow like a river in the soul, dee]) and blight, 
filling it with its rich experience; a felicity that shall 
be as a shining atmosphere around that soul — beneath 
whose radiance all spiritual graces shall start forth 
and flourish; in whose inspiration, each voice shall be 
one of constant song, and every thought of joy and 
praise I 



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We do not feel that we have realized a true or a 
sufficient welfare, even in this world, until we are in 
the conscious experience of that inmost happiness 
which comes from virtue. We never can attain our 
consummate welfare in the world to come — all that of 
which we are capable by nature, and toward which the 
soul constitutionally aspires — till this virtue has been 
perfected, and this happiness made supreme. But 
when our relations with God are harmonious, when in 
us has been completely developed that Divine charac- 
ter which was revealed in Christ our Lord, when our 
powers are unfolded, and prepared for every grandest 
service to which they can be called, then joy must be- 
come our continual experience. Then shall the per- 
fect blessedness which we feel, and which we see re- 
vealed on all sides, be as the walls of precious stones, 
circling around us ; and as the pavements of transpar- 
ent gold, beneath our feet ; as the rainbow, arching in 
its prismatic beauty before our eyes ; as the river of the 
water of life which we drink of, and the tree of life, of 
whose shade and fruit we constantly partake. 

The soul will then have at last attained its true well- 
being, to which no element need be added. And that 
well-being shall be as eternal as is the being of God 
Himself! The stars that we look at in yonder skies shall 
fade from the sight of men and of angels. It is only a 
difference of time, after all, between the glittering cor- 
ruscation of the meteors, which flash into our atmos- 



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phere and die there, and the shining of the orbs which 
seem to be set eternally in their places. These still 
are transient, like the meteors. The difference between 
them is a difference of years. The sun himself shall be 
extinguished, as are the names which now his brighter 
light puts out ; and the star that looks most steadfast 
in the heavens is moving constantly toward its disso- 
lution. But the soul which scans, measures, and weighs 
these, outlasts them all. An effect wrought on it be- 
comes immortal. And so the effort that seeks its good 
vindicates itself as the wisest of Time. 

You build your house; and the changes of enterprise 
may sweep it from the earth. It must by-and-by 
return to dust. You gather your fortune ; and time, 
and change, and death, shall scatter it, to every wind. 
You frame your policy of government and statesman- 
ship ; and the coming years shall overwhelm it in for- 
getfulness.* You utter, in volumes ornate and eloquent, 
your theories of Science and of Art; and shortly men 
forget the fact that they were ever wrought out and 
published. You win a human soul to Christ, and you 
have enriched the universe forever ! 

It is only when we look at this, from this point of 
view, that we understand the construction of the 
BlBLE, so wonderful as it is, involving so many diverse 
minds, extending over so main centuries, but bearing 
all and always, consistently, upon one point: the win- 
ning of souls of men to Christ ! 



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It is only when we look at this, too, from this point 
of view, that we understand the reason of Miracles, 
or can appreciate the argument for them. Mer. say, 
' It is incredible that God should work miracles, inter- 
rupting thus the order of his universe, and breaking 
in abruptly upon its harmonies.' But the most stu- 
pendous miracle of the Scriptures is plainly just as 
possible to God as is breath or pulsation to you and 
me. It is his will, alone, that forbids them, in the 
usual order of the creation. It is his will that equally 
accomplishes them, when the exigency which calls for 
them has come. And there is nothing incredible about 
them, when we remember the purpose which they 
serve : that they are wrought for bringing back the 
Race which has fallen, into its just relations to him- 
self. The moment we look from this point upon them, 
we understand the reason of Miracles, and even feel 
them probable beforehand. What could not be accom- 
plished by human instrumentality, nor through the 
usual operations of nature, that God in his mercy 
seeks to accomplish through wonders and visions, 
through convulsions of the earth, and sudden terrors 
of tempest in the air. And these are just as reason- 
able and credible as are the silent operations of his 
Spirit in the hearts of men. 

It is only under tbe light of the same theme that we 
understand the work and sacrifice of Christ himself : 
the most wonderful of all miracles, the most transcend- 



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ent of all the Divine operations in the world, his In- 
carnation, and his Death. Not to found a new em- 
pire, however magnificent, not to create a new planet 
or sun, would the Son of God have become incarnate, 
in the feeble babe of the manger at Bethlehem. 

There was no necessity, to such an effect, for such a 
superlative condescension. He might speak, and it 
should be done. The mere mandate unuttered, exist- 
ing in his mind, would strew this moment the silent 
heavens with other worlds, and fill those spaces of void 
darkness which the astronomer finds between the 
stars, with clusters of universes grander still than that 
to which our earth belongs. There was no possible 
need of his Death, to accomplish such a work as this. 
There is no work whatever, save one, yet known to us, 
that can interpret and justify the sacrifice, so immense, 
and so transcendent. And this one work is that of 
" winning souls " to Grod, and making their immortality 
glorious, through their restored relations to him. When 
we think of this, the Incarnation is harmonized with 
the whole Divine plan ; and even the sacrifice of Cal- 
vary itself is justified to our minds! 

And this alone interprets, as well, the mission and 
work of the Holy Spirit; that constant miracle of 
the Christian dispensation, which we have witnessed in 
the midst of us, which many of us have felt, I trust, in 
our own hearts ; that miracle by which the Divine 
power that brought the order out of the chaos, that 



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wrought on the troubled elements of the earth, and 
made it a solid and fruitful orb for us to inhabit, comes 
to-day as a still small voice, yet works in men with the 
mystery of Omnipotence ! It comes, not as the glory 
came upon Sinai ? making the crags to reel and quake, 
the mountain rock. It comes into our souls more 
gently than the breath of your babe breathes against 
your cheek, in its calm sleep ! It comes into our souls 
more sweetly than does the delicate strain of music, 
which the ear must listen intently to catch; more 
gently than, does even the voice of a friend, bringing 
some message of peace to our hearts. And only by the 
train of thought we have followed are we prepared for 
that wondrous operation by which this eternal Spirit 
of God enters so silently, yet so effectually, into the 
soul, to make it God-like, first in character, then in 
power, and to fill it with the experience of His favor. 

" He that winneth souls is wise. " And God himself 
never reveals his wisdom more distinctly to us, and to 
the angels overhead, than when he works his miracles 
for this end ; when he sends his Son into the world to 
die, for the same end ; when he sends his Spirit into 
the estranged hearts of men, that he may bring them 
back to himself. He illustrates his wisdom more 
vividly here, than when he made the universe march 
in shining order before his throne, and set its worlds 
worlds in the orbits they maintain ! 

In the light of this, we see, my Brethren, the glory 



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of the Chukch, as an institution for the winning of 
souls to God and Christ ; how it is that it continues 
from age to age, with a glory that does not pass away, 
and that pertains to no other institution. The purpose 
which it serves marks it divine. If it were to seek 
any secular end — to attempt, as in time past the ac- 
quisition of wealth, or the subjugation of empires to 
itself, — it would come under the law of other similar 
institutions, becoming transient in its continuance, and 
imperfect in its claim on men's allegiance. But so long- 
as the purpose to which it steadfastly adheres is the 
conversion of mankind unto God, it abides, and must 
prosper. Its glory is inherent. You cannot add to it 
by any accumulation of visible powers, or by clothing 
with any titles its ministers. 'By the Church,' said 
the Apostle, — and remember that he was writing to 
the poor converts of the earliest century, very imper- 
fect in their character, very limited in their influence, 
who were gathered at Ephesus, and the various near 
commercial cities, — 'by the Church,' made up of the 
ignorant and the t weak, of slaves and of the outcast — 
' by the Church may be made known,' — made known 
to whom \ to the world around it ? Nay, verily ! — 
'by the Church may be made known to Principalities 
and Powers in heavenly places, the manifold wisdom 
of God !' 

For "he that winneth souls is wise." And however 
humble the Church may be, by its agency in bringing 



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men to Christ — through its ministry of the truth, when 
that is accompanied by the grace of the Highest — the 
manifold wisdom of the Creator is revealed, even to 
angels in heavenly places ; is so revealed as it could 
not be in all wonders of Creation, and all the mighty 
order of Providence. 

At the same point we learn to appreciate also the 
glory and privilege of the work of the Minister, in the 
Church. The glory, and the privilege, of it ! Re- 
member how Paul felt concerning this, as it is illustrated 
in the passage from his first epistle to the Corinthians 
which I have read in your hearing this morning. " Ne- 
cessity is laid upon me," he says, "to preach the Gos- 
pel." 'It is not a necessity of occupation, or of sup- 
port ! I might be an officer in the Jewish Church, I 
might be an officer in the Roman State.' To a man of 
Paul's capacity and culture — his energy of mind, and 
his power of will — all offices were open; every 
avenue that led to prominence and power. He was 
himself a Roman citizen, as well as of the choicest He- 
brew stock. But " necessity is laid upon me," he says. 
1 Because of the love I bear to the Master, who brought 
the Gospel of peace to the world, and who for it laid 
down his life, — because of the greatness, intrinsic and 
unspeakable, of the work to be performed, — I must 
preach the word. To them that are under the law, 
I become as under the law myself, that I may bring 
them to the liberty of the Gospel. To those without 



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law, I become as without law, that I may bring them 
under the rule of love and of Christ. I am made all 
things to all men, that I may by all means save some.' 
For this is a work whose rewards are intrinsic, and 
whose effects are eternal; and "he that winneth souls 
is wise." 

This has seemed to me, my Brethren, a theme es- 
pecially appropriate to us to-day. I finish, with the 
day, the last sabbath of Twenty successive years of. 
my Ministry, in this parish and Church. It is an oc 
casion on which I naturally look backward, as you 
also look backward — many of you over several years, 
some of you to the very beginning, of this ministry. 
And standing here to-day I rejoice anew in this Church 
of Christ ; in the work which has been accomplished by 
it ; in the influence which has gone out from it; in the 
harmony and prosperity which God has given to it 
from the outset; most of all in the souls which have 
been, in it, and by it, brought back to God. 

When I came into the pastorate here, there had been 
one hundred and forty-two persons received into the 
Church; two of them upon confession of faith, one 
hundred and forty upon letters of dismission from other 
Churches. Of that whole number there are about 
thirty remaining still on the roll of our members. But 
five or six of these are absent from the Church, living 
in distant parts of the city, or in other cities, and only 



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occasionally uniting with us, and partaking of our 
communion. So that there are but about twenty-five 
of those who were members of the Church when I 
came here, who are still present and active in it. 

Since the commencement of my ministry, there have 
been received into the Church, on confession of their 
faith, three hundred and ninety-four persons — or nearly 
twenty for every year; and, on letters from other 
Churches, six hundred and seventeen ; making a total 
of one thousand and eleven. 

From the beginning of the history of the Church, 
extending over nearly two years before I came to it 
as its pastor, there have been received three hundred 
and ninety-six upon confession, and seven hundred and 
fifty-seven upon letters; making a total number of 
one thousand one hundred and fifty-three. Of these, 
ninty-four have died ; and four hundred and eighty- 
three have been removed, by dismission or otherwise ; 
making five hundred and seventy-seven who have left 
the Church, after being at some time connected with it; 
while five hundred and seventy-six remain, — or, as 
nearly as possible, one half of the number. One 
year's record will illustrate the extent and the rapidity 
of the changes we have seen. There were received 
into the Church during the first year of my ministry 
to it, sixty-nine persons; twelve upon confession of 
faith, and fifty-seven upon Church letters. Of these, 
fourteen have died ; thirty-four have been dismissed ; 



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and six are only occasionally with us; leaving but 
fifteen still at home in the Church, of all who in that 
year of our history became identified with us. 

During the present year, sixty-eight have been re- 
ceived to the Church, on confession of their faith, and 
thirty-four upon letters from abroad ; making one hun- 
dred and two in all, or the largest number ever yet re- 
ceived in a single year to our communion. In the city, 
at the time when I came to it, there was but one other 
Church of the same order with this, and that a small 
one, encumbered with debt, which a few years after- 
ward was wholly merged in another organization. Now 
in this city, and its vicinity on the Island, there are 
eighteen Churches of our faith and order ; all of them 
prosperous, nearly all of them self-sustaining, and some 
of them among the strongest in the land. 

In reckoning rapidly the sums which have been 
contributed here, during these years, to the various 
objects of Christian benevolence, — and including some 
which have not passed through the general treasury of 
the Church, but have been given by individuals for 
particular institutions or purposes of beneficence, out- 
side our usual contributions, — I find that $220,000 
have been given for objects wholly apart from our own 
expenses. More, rather than less, than this sum, lias 
certainly been thus contributed, for religious, philan- 
thropic, and educational uses. And the harvest of 
influences, of which the seed has in this way been 
sown, the coming centuries will continue to garner. 



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This is a very imperfect summary of what has been 
done here. But even this — how large is the work 
which it represents ! Some of you have been asso- 
ciated for enterprises that are great and signal in the 
eyes of men. Standing in this pulpit to-day, and look- 
ing back over these Twenty years of our Church histo- 
ry, I feel that you ought most of all to rejoice that you 
have been permitted to take part in this, which is the 
grandest of all that have invited you : an enterprise 
for the glory of God, in the immortal salvation of men. 
He who sends the lightning under the sea, and makes 
it carry human thought through the abysmal darkness 
there, is wise, no doubt ; and he who stretches the lines 
of railway over the continent ; and he who builds the 
great institutions of society and of government. But 
one man is wiser than either, or than all : he who gives 
of his substance, of his time and enthusiasm, and his 
personal endeavor, to the establishment or to the en- 
largement of that Church of Christ whose office it is to 
win souls to God. 

For myself I rejoice, as I look back over these 
rapid years, in the work it has been permitted to me 
to assist, or to do. I rejoice to acknowledge the uni- 
form kindness which has from the first been manifested 
toward me in this congregation, and the help which I 
have always derived from your sympathies and prayers, 
and your intelligent cooperating exertions. I rejoice 
to feel that these years are secure! that nothing what- 



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ever, which may occur in the Future, can change, or 
mar, or blot them out ! 

There may have been fifty persons, I suppose — I 
know of certainly more than thirty — who have been 
hopefully led to Christ in this congregation, coming 
under my personal ministry, as well as under the gen- 
eral ministry of the truth from this pulpit, who yet 
have not counected themselves with this Church. They 
were tarrying here only for the time, and returned to 
different parts of the country after their conversion, 
forming connection with Churches there, where their 
residence was to be. And out of this entire number, 
of four hundred and thirty, or four hundred and fifty, 
thus led to Christ, I have scarcely known a single one 
who has given occasion to doubt the reality of the 
change which appeared, or the realness and power of 
the Christian experience. — No man can rob me of the 
joy of having been the instrument under God of lead- 
ing these souls, so far as I have helped to lead them, 
unto the knowledge and love of Christ ! For all the 
wealth of the cities of the world, I would not ex- 
change that blessed recollection ! Thank God for the 
privilege of the work of the Ministry ! Thank God 
for the grace which put me into it ! 

To-day, my Brethren, we are again called to give — 
as we have been many times before called to give — to 
the maintenance and enlargement of the "City Mission 
and Tract Society;" with which this Church has been 



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closely associated from the beginning of its history ; 
to which it is but justice to say that it has contributed 
certainly as much, not of money alone, but of moral 
influence, and of energy and skill in the direction of its 
affairs, as any other in the city. I remember the first 
year on which we took our public collection for this 
Society — which was then confined chiefly to the work 
of distributing tracts in the city. We took up, by a 
great exertion, a collection amounting to not more than 
four hundred dollars ; my impression is that it was a 
little less than that sum. The last year, our collection 
for the same object, was four thousand five hundred 
dollars. And this was secured with far less effort upon 
my part than had been needful for the other. 

The Society had, twenty years ago, but a single 
missionary in the field. It now has Twenty. We have 
gained one for every year since I first pleaded in this 
pulpit in its behalf. I have been unsuccessful in my 
effort to obtain the number of conversions reported by 
our diligent missionaries, in the course of these years. 
But they have been certainly many hundreds, I think 
some thousands. God has constantly blessed the efforts 
which they have made, with the accompanying grace of 
his Spirit. And the number of those who have, either 
directly or indirectly, been reached and moved, and led 
to Christ, through their labors, only Omniscience can 
record. 

To-day, then, — standing at the end of these years 



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and looking back together upon them with gratitude 
to God, and praises for his goodness to us, — let us 
make, through this beloved Society, a thank-offering 
to Him for the kindness which has spared us to each 
other so long, and give more largely than ever before 
for its good work: — a work to be accomplished in the 
city around us, to which we shall look back with de- 
light when the Future has opened to us its vision and 
reward ! It can hardly be possible, in the nature of 
things, that more than a majority of us should be 
gathered again at the end of another Twenty years of 
the ministry of the Gospel in this place ; hardly in the 
nature of things be possible that to me it should be 
given to minister to you in the future so long. But 
whensoever the time of separation shall come, when- 
soever the voice that calls us hence shall make itself 
heard, saying to each of us, ' Come up higher, and I 
will show thee things that shall be hereafter,' — God 
grant that we may be able to look back upon this 
work as nobly done : so nobly and so generously done 
that it shall have lent a new inspiration to other 
churches to do their share of the same work more 
vigorously than ever; so generously done that by it 
the reign of the Lord and of his Gospel shall be 
grandly extended throughout this city, in which God 
lias given to us our dwelling. 

My dear Friends, who arc still not united to Christ, 
I cannot close without one word on this anniversary 



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to you to whom I have preached so often, and who 
have yet failed to respond to my words ; who have not 
found, and have not sought, that reconciliation with 
God through Christ, to which I have tried so earnestly 
to lead you, and without which the whole world given 
to you would only leave you poorer than before ! " He 
that winneth souls is wise." Would that I were wise 
enough to know by what argument which I never have 
mastered, by what appeal which I have never been 
able to make, I could now reach and stir your hearts ! 
If he that winneth souls is wise, oh ! do not forget — I 
pray you to-day, do not forget — that he who giveth 
his soul to God is wise forever ; and he who refuses to 
do that — notwithstanding all God's goodness to him, 
and all the lessons that come from experience, and all 
the appeals that now from the Cross, and all the solemn 
adjurations of Eternity — he is, in the deepest and most 
absolute sense, unwise for himself — unwise forever ! 



EVENING SEKMON. 

ltd ©fjessalonians, 3 : 8. 
"for now we live, if ye stand fast in the lord." 



It seems at first sight an extraordinary thing that 
these words should have been written by him who 
sent them, to those to whom they were addressed. 

Paul does not seem to us a man especially dependent 
on the sympathy of others, for his enjoyment, or for 
his vigor of purpose and of will. Until we have pen- 
etrated beneath the primary aspects of his character, 
and have touched his inmost heart and spirit, until we 
have found what a deep and delicate sensibility was 
in him, how eager and tender were his affections, we 
do not suspect his dependence on others, or appreciate 
the intimate consciousness which he shows of the in- 
spiriting influence of his friend's enthusiasm. What, 
therefore, would have seemed but natural in John, that 
sensitive, responsive, almost feminine discijDle, who 
was manifestly moved by the moods of others, and 
inflamed by their ardor, and whose ultimate self-reliance 
had required many years and large discipline to 
complete it, — this does not at once impress us, I think, 



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as what was to be expected in the resolute, fearless, 
and firm-nerved Paul, who was not afraid of an empire 
in arms, who bore on himself the concentrated care of 
all the churches, and whose serene and self-poised for- 
titude rose to only fresh mastery as the difficulty and 
danger gathered thicker about him.' We are hardly pre- 
pared to hear Mm say, ' Now does our spiritual life, for 
its fulness and blessedness, depend upon yours !' But 
we look, rather, to find him always the source and 
spring of inspiration to others ; the steadfast and im- 
j>erial teacher, who imparts to them knowledge, and 
from contact with whose illuminated mind their con- 
victions are constantly renewed; the self-sufficing 
heroic champion, by whom they are guided, encour- 
aged, defended, but to whom they — because of their 
immense inferiority, because of his so singular com- 
pleteness — can render nothing in return. 

We need to know the Apostle more fully, to have 
walked with him familiarly throughout his epistles, to 
have marked the kindness and the generous gentleness 
in which he abounded, to have seen how lonely he felt 
himself in solitude, how his very heart ached for society 
and sympathy at Athens and at Rome, and how he was 
refreshed by these the moment they met him, — we 
need to have seen how capacious that princely nature 
was of all tenderest emotion, while also so stocked 
with the manliest strength, — before we can clearly 
understand howitwas that lie should say, l Now is our 



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state of force and of felicity conditioned upon yours. 
If ye stand fast in the Lord, we live.' 

Nor is it less remarkable, at first sight, that he 
should have said this to those to whom he did say it ; 
to those who had been converted to Christ in Thes- 
salonica. They were not many. They were by no 
means eminent, strong, or cultivated Christians. They 
had lately been brought to the knowledge of the Lord 
by Paul himself, who had preached to them a few 
weeks on his way along the seaboard, from Philippi 
to Athens. They dwelt in a city, not distinguished 
above others perhaps for the corruptness of its man- 
ners, but which — like all the great commercial towns 
of that most frivolous and licentious age — was per- 
vaded by heathenism, and full of vice; and which 
lately had taken a bad preeminence through the vio- 
lence of the assault permitted in it on the Apostle 
himself, and on those who believed with him. Fewer 
of the Hebrews had here been converted than was 
common elsewhere, and a larger proportion than usual 
of the church was made up of those who had just 
turned from the worship of idols. Among them, too, 
an incipient heresy had already begun to manifest and 
to spread itself, concerning the time of the Lord's 
second coming, and concerning the state of those who 
should die before that event. Some, in their restless 
expectation of the Lord, were disposed to be idle, and 
careless of their customary duties in the world ; others 



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to be turbulent and refractory in the Church, and, 
under pretence of edifying each other, to spread dis- 
order in their infant community. And, on the whole, 
looking back to it from our times, it would hardly 
seem that any Church thus far established would be 
less likely than this of the Thessalonians to render to 
Paul any spiritual help. 

That he should therefore express to them — whom he 
had not known long, whom he himself had just led 
forth from the darkness and grossness of Pagan idola- 
tries, who seemed to be utterly dependent upon him, 
and upon the messages and the letters he should send 
them, for spiritual strength, wisdom and culture, — 
that he should express so emphatically to them his 
sense of the support and the quickening encourage- 
ment to be derived by himself from their fidelity, — 
even more than this : his sense of his need of just such 
support, as the vital condition of his own completest 
spiritual life, — this may well seem extraordinary ! It 
may look, almost, like a phrase of mere courtesy ; a 
graceful and conciliatory address of compliment, which 
shows that he remembered and kindly regarded them, 
but which is not to be taken in its exact and literal 
force. We may even be tempted, perhaps, to suspect 
that he flatters them a little, in this delicate way, in or- 
der to commend to them more effectually the precepts 
and instructions with which the Epistle is elsewhere 
replete. 



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And yet, if we thoughtfully consider it, my Friends, 
we shall see that this is not so; that these, above 
others, were the disciples who might most fitly en- 
courage and inspire the veteran Apostle. Because 
they had recently been converted to Christ — many of 
them from the midst of heathenism — Paul longed the 
more earnestly to hear of their fidelity, and would 
take a fresh stimulation and strength from the tidings 
thereof. Because they were surrounded with tempta- 
tion and peril, their steadfastness in their allegiance to 
Christ would re-enforce and invigorate him, for the 
work which was to come, more than could almost any- 
thing beside. And if, with the evident tendencies to 
error in doctrine, and to errors of practice, which al- 
ready surrounded and were subtly affecting them, they 
still remained true to the Master and his Gospel, then 
would Paul preach in every community which he 
thenceforth should enter, with a more settled and cen- 
tral confidence, the principles and the promises which 
had proved in their experience so mighty and benign. 

It was not, therefore, a matter of compliment — it 
was not a formal expression of courtesy — this which 
the now mature Apostle, who had been for many years 
a disciple, and for most of them a preacher of the 
word, sent to those recent, few, and poor Thessalonian 
converts, when he said, " For now we live, if ye stand 
fast in the Lord." The vital bond which always con- 
nects the Teacher with the taught, and makes them 



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reciprocally helpful to each other — the disciples often 
as useful to the Teacher, in advancing and finishing his 
force and his culture, as he can have been at the outset 
to them, — this is here recognized, with only the greater 
distinctness and emphasis by reason of the character 
and the peculiar relation of him who speaks, and of 
those to whom his words are addressed. And for this 
important general truth, which is involved in the text, 
we may profitably pause this evening to ponder it. 

If Paul could say it to those with whom he had 
tarried so briefly, and who were necessarily known to 
him so slightly — if he could say it, who seemed to need, 
almost to admit, no help or addition from any quarter, 
to complete him in his culture, or confirm him in his 
strength — how much more may any Pastor now say it, 
who dwells with one people year after year ; who 
comes into constant intercourse with them ; and who 
occupies a far lower position toward them, as a Christ- 
ian instructor, than that which Paul held toward those 
recent converts to whom he wrote; who is conscious, 
too, of weaknesses and wants from which the great 
Apostle to the Gentiles was conspicuously exempt ! 
How much more earnestly and emphatically may lie 
say — with what almost vehemence may he repeat the 
declaration- — ' Now do I live,' in the best Christian 
attainment and enjoyment, in the richest experience <>t' 
know ledge, love, and spiritual power, in the most ef- 
fective Christian usefulness, if, and only if, ye who hear 
me i stand fast in the Lord !' 



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The beneficial spiritual influence which the members 
of a Church naturally exert upon their Pastor may be 
distributed under these main divisions : 

First Their influence on his knowledge and belief 
of the Christian system, as they confirm and renew 
these; as they make them practical, and not simply 
theoretic — matters of experience, fruits of observation, 
and not mere conclusions drawn from argument and 
from study. 

Second. Their influence on his zeal in his work, as 
they quicken and increase this, and sometimes in- 
flame it — through the example and contact of their 
own — to an ardent enthusiasm. 

Third. Their direct influence on his character, as 
they impart to this, silently, gradually, of the beauty, 
richness, and virtue of their own ; as they complete it, 
from their more various and affluent excellence, or re- 
duce what in it is abnormal and excessive, by the sug- 
gestions, or the positive attrition, of their better sym- 
metry. And, 

Fourth. Their influence on his sense of effective and 
large usefulness in his work ; as they distribute his 
influence more widely than he could possibly have 
personally carried it; as through their lips, and lives, 
and charities, the forces which he has set in operation 
are made to sweep a far broader circumference than 
his most intense and unremitting activity could ever 
have covered. 



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It is not necessary that I develope in detail each or 
either of these several points. A glance at them, in 
their series, or separately, will suffice to show that the 
general principle, inferred from the special words of 
the Apostle, is forevermore true; that reciprocity of 
communication must always exist between the preacher 
and the people; and that while he is acting upon them 
for their good, they also in turn react upon him, and 
injure or benefit him, with an efficiency greater, to a 
degree more important, than they themselves are 
always aware of. Their height and reach of Christian 
attainment are in fact the conditions, as well as the 
exponents, of his own. And not more depends, for the 
growth, welfare, and usefulness of a Church, on what 
he brings them, than on how they receive it, and what 
is the tribute they render for it, in the influence which 
they reflect upon himself. 

As human nature is constituted and trained, this 
cannot be otherwise. We are necessarily dependent, 
each upon the other; and none is so wholly complete 
on all sides that he does not require, as none is so hard 
that he does not feel, what is brought him by others. 
The force which is contained, too, in a whole congre- 
gation — in which the many minds and wills are sub- 
stantially harmonized — is of course more solid, more 
abounding and comprehensive, and more impressive, 
than that which can emanate from any one person. It 
is a life-force, not a mere intellectual influence; and 



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though it acts silently, it acts continuously, with a 
certain direct dynamic energy. He who is embosom- 
ed in it may not feel so much his special indebted- 
ness to particular individuals, as they may feel their in- 
debtedness to him. But he will and must feel, he can- 
not escape feeling, his dependence on the whole, and 
the aids to growth, the impulse to enterprise, or the 
contrary influences toward coldness and indolence, 
which they impart. 

Let a Minister stand year after year in a sluggish, 
unintelligent, unresponsive congregation, whose mem- 
bers receive his weekly lessons, but make for them no 
positive and animating spiritual returns — who are list- 
less and worldly in their prevalent temper, and who 
have not learned the blessing and the joy of active 
exertion in the cause of the Master; let him be met 
with a passive indifference when he opens to them the 
truth, and especially when he seeks to unfold that 
truth in its more delicate harmonies, or its remoter 
relations; let it all be accepted as a creditable enough 
performance on his part, which he was to exhibit, while 
the people sat to pass judgment upon it, and the ulti- 
mate fruit of which is to be their transient mental 
entertainment ; let him be encircled, when he speaks 
to them in familiar converse, not with a sweet and 
sunny spirit of Christian sympathy, charity, hope, or a 
radiant outgush of Christian affection, — but, with a 
shrewd worldly sagacity, with a frivolous temper 



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that treats all the facts of the Gospel as unreal, and 
its maxims as unpractical, or with a sharp and hard- 
edged censoriousness that cuts the life out from all 
Christian development ; and let him feel that what 
he says produces no beneficial impression outside the 
circle which he himself immediately addresses, — that 
no helpful hands are carrying it further, and no earn- 
est voices are dispensing it to the poor, and no rich 
charities are conveying it round the world ; — let this be 
his attitude, and this his environment, and you might 
as well put the man at the poles, in the heart of an 
ice-berg, walled up all around with gelid pinnacles, and 
expect him to maintain his vital warmth in that aus- 
tere and clasping cold, as put him in such a pulpit as 
that, and expect him to continue a faithful, earnest, and 
quickening preacher. 

His manner will freeze, if his spirit does not; and 
deeper and deeper the chill will strike, as he tarries 
there longer, till he comes to be as impassive as his 
people. He must enkindle a light in their souls, or 
find the light in his put out. If he cannot melt their 
flinty frost, and touch with fire their dull sensibilities, 
through the fervor of his faith, they will at last chill 
him to the centre. 'Now I might have lived,' such a 
man may say at the end of his ministry, 'if ye had 
only been faithful and earnest! But the steady pull 
of your continuous and unsubduable worldliness has 
carried me with it in its downward drift. Ye have 



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quenched what ardor of soul I had ; and have made 
my ministry degenerate at last into a matter of mere 
routine, or have even perverted it into heresy. And 
the shame and the crime of this consummation are not 
mine alone ; they belong to us both !' How many 
there have been who have had such a ministry, and 
who might have given this witness at its close ! 

But, on the other hand, suppose a man brought year 
after year into contact with minds that are active, 
responsive, and full of inquiries concerning the truth, 
— not skeptically questioning, but candidly and vari- 
ously considering that truth, and seeking to gain of it 
the largest knowledge ; suppose him to see the effect 
of his ministry in souls convinced, persuaded, con- 
verted, and filled with new-born joy and song; — sup- 
pose him, as he visits from house to house, to be com- 
monly accosted by Christian faith, patience, and peace, 
even where trouble and anxiety are found, much more 
in the homes of comfort and prosperity ; to be en- 
circled, in the assemblies of his people, by an earnest 
desire for the furtherance of the Gospel, and a hearty 
enthusiasm — that prompts to personal effort and sacri- 
fice — for the conversion of men to Christ; suppose 
him to meet resignation and hope, or the more vivid 
triumphs of faith, at the death-bed and the grave ; a 
holy gratitude in the house filled with joy by the 
bridal or the birth; an unflinching fidelity to the 
principles of righteousuess, in the day of sore com- 



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mercial trial ; a tranquil trustfulness, and a happy sub- 
mission, at the bedside where month after month has 
passed, and left the suffering form still prostrate, with 
no rescue by medicine, and no prospect but of death ; — 
and suppose him. to know, beyond all this, that far out- 
side the limits of his parish, those forming it are going 
on errands of mercy and good- will to others, are scat- 
tering whatever of light he brings them throughout 
the chambers of ignorance and of sin, are carrying it 
abroad, by systematic and large contributions, to dis- 
tant frontiers, and over the breadth of foreign lands ; — 
suppose this to be his position and his experience, and he 
may say with utmost emphasis, not, ' Now live I, if ye 
stand fast in the Lord !' but, ' Now live I, in the noblest 
power and peace of the soul, because ye have stood 
fast in the faith, and in the Master from whom we both 
have received and have learned it! Your staunch 
fidelity has been my shield and my support ! Your zeal, 
the spring from which my earnestness has been always 
replenished ! Your submission and hope, my constant 
inspiration ! And much as I may have given to you, 
in public ministry, or in private communion, that, and 
much more, have ye returned, in these your silent re- 
ciprocal ministrations !' 

So, plainly, may any Minister affirm, whose fortunate 
lot lias placed him with a people susceptible to the 
influences which lie brings them from the Gospel, and 
accustomed to reproduce those influences in their con- 



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duct and character. That conduct, and that character, 
must inevitably become more to him than all treatises 
of religion, and all lessons of the schools. His own 
convictions of the truth must be vitalized, through the 
effects it works among his people. A constant influ- 
ence raining on him, from their uplifted and consecrated 
souls, must enlighten and invigorate him; while, with 
a sense of ample efficiency to which others are strang- 
ers, may he, amid whatever of weakness, accomplish 
through them his work for the Master. 

One of the greatest and sorest trials, — though one 
at the same time less generally appreciated than are 
some minor physical inconveniences — which front the 
missionary in foreign lands, or in our own recent and 
untamed territories, is this of having to work alone ; 
of wanting that encouragement which can come only 
from a surrounding and inspiriting sympathy; of feel- 
ing the chill of an atmosphere full on every side of 
skeptical scoffing and of ribald confusion ; of thinking, 
as did the prophet of old, that he alone, of all the 
multitude, is not now bowing the knee to Baal. And 
one of the great and stimulating advantages which 
invest the ministry, as exercised in communities long 
subject to the Gospel, and pervaded by its force, — 
and especially as exercised in Churches where the pas- 
tor and the people dwell permanently together, in a 
cordial alliance — is this of deriving both inward com- 
fort and outward help from the faith of great numbers ; 



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of staying the spirit when it otherwise would have sunk, 
overborne by fatigues or desponding through discour- 
agements, on the prayers, the convictions, the expecta- 
tions, and the labors, which are ever anew supplied by 
others. A blessed thing it is, indeed, for any Minis- 
ter to be able to say to the people over whom he 
watches in the Gospel ; l Now do I live because ye 
all stand fast in the Lord !' Your vigor invigorates, 
your enthusiasm refreshes, your temper refines, exalts, 
completes, your knowledge enlarges and clarifies mine ! 
And while I may give to individuals among you more 
spiritual help than they in turn can render to me, the 
body of Christ, which you compose, is my most effi- 
cient instructor, under Grod. Through it, as through a 
palpable medium, the grace of the Highest flows in 
upon my soul. By my continual contacts with it are 
kept full the springs of my spiritual power and life! 

In some good measure, at least, my Brethren, I can 
say this of this beloved Church; and therefore this 
theme has seemed very naturally to suggest itself this 
evening. Once before I have preached on it — years 
ago — in this same pulpit ; rather as suggesting at that 
time, however, a theme of exhortation, which it seemed 
my duty to bring to you. To-night 1 preach upon it 
again, at this last service of Twenty years of my Min- 
istry in this parish, as suggesting a theme of grateful 
acknowledgment which it is my privilege to present. 



49 

I should not be true to my own consciousness of the 
help which you have continually given me, if I did not 
present it, as I review, from this latest hour, the time 
which has so swiftly passed. 

I do not certainly intend to affirm — you would not 
believe me if I did, and would not credit me with sin- 
cerity in saying it, — that this has been a perfect 
Church. As we measure it against the ideal of the 
New Testament, which will in future times be realized, 
it has been far enough from that ; and rone can feel its 
deficiencies more keenly than those who have long been 
associated with it, and accustomed to pray for its per- 
fection. But without the smallest disposition to ex- 
aggerate, or, certainly, to natter — which you will bear 
witness that I have not been wont to do hitherto, and 
which I do not intend at this late day to begin, — I 
may say, as a reason for grateful acknowledgment to 
God for his goodness, that nowhere in the land, in all 
the wide circle of Churches of different names to which 
I have occasionally ministered, have I found another 
more full than this of intellectual and spiritual force ; 
more attentive to the truth, or more responsive to its 
appeals ; more ready to give, and personally to labor, 
for the advancement of the kingdom of Christ ; more 
eager and tender in its solicitous sympathies toward 
those who are inquiring for the way and the hope of 
the life everlasting ; more glad and grateful, when God 
has been pleased to bless it in his grace — as from time 



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to time he has done — with signal and powerful effu- 
sions of his Spirit ; more ready to seize on every op- 
portunity to make an influence for goodness and for 
God widely felt in the land and the world. 

I never preach to another congregation which I so 
well love to address as my own. I have never known, 
since my ministry began here, another Church that 
seemed to me, — in all the influence which pervaded it, 
— more helpful and useful than this has been to those 
embraced in its communion. And it is delightful 
to me to know, as it must be equally so to you, that 
those who have gone forth from us in the past, and 
who are now scattered in distant places or other lands, 
still feel toward this Church as we do who have 
tarried in it; and that their hearts untraveled return, 
in frequent thought and affectionate remembrance, to 
the services in which they here have united, and the 
solemn or the joyful scenes .which they have witnessed 
beneath this roof. 

Looking back then over the past to-night, I recog- 
nize, and joyfully express and record, my sense of per- 
sonal spiritual indebtedness to you my people. I know 
full well that to many among you it has pleased our 
Father to make me at times of special service : in help- 
ing to sustain you, in the hour of sore bereavement 
and sorrow ; in helping to enlighten you, when ques. 
tions concerning the truth or your duly were pressing 
darkly upon your minds; in helping to lead you to 



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new efforts of Christian endurance and enterprise, or 
new victories of faith, when you were tempted to faint 
and despond; in helping to guide you into the way 
of pardon and peace, when your steps had been ar- 
rested by the precepts of Christ, when your souls 
were stirred with the sense of immortality, and when 
the path which you eagerly sought seemed hard to 
gain. As I said in the morning, the richest reward of 
my work here — next to the hope of the approval of the 
Master — is the consciousness I rejoice in of having been 
an instrument of blessing and help to many among you. 
But you have also helped me in return; and have 
ministered to me, not of material things alone, but of 
spiritual as well. Some of us have now and then dif- 
fered in judgment, and differed earnestly, — as it was 
our right and privilege to do. But none of these dif- 
ferences have left the least trace of unkindness behind 
them, and I have often derived suggestions that were 
most valuable from opinions or arguments with which 
I could not fully coincide. Our meetings for Christian 
conference and prayer have not been always as large 
or as earnest as they should have been. But they 
have never failed to be held ; and the brief remark, or 
the hesitating prayer, which came from the heart of 
some brother in the Church, has been to me often 
more stimulating in itself, or through the trains of 
thought it suggested, than a folio volume would have 
been. The glance of an eye suffused with tears at our 



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Communion has interpreted to me the appeals of the 
Cross, has manifested the secret of Christian experi- 
ence, and has brought the Lord, to whom the tear 
was a tribute, more vividly before me than could pic- 
tures or statues. The penitence of a soul, pierced with 
the inmost sense of sin, has shown the hurt which 
only the grace of God can medicine ; and the joy of 
one just converted to Christ has been more truly in- 
structive and inspiring than any series of treatises or 
of lectures. 

In a word, whatever I have been enabled to brino; 
to you, of quickening counsel, of elevating and en- 
lightening presentation of the truth, of the manifesta- 
tion of the grace which is in Christ, of the revelation 
of the glory overhead, — that, I may freely confess to- 
night, that I have learned at first from you, or from 
your fellow-members here, more than from books, 
teachers, or schools. In ministering to you in the 
hour of your sorrow, I have touched through you the 
deepest sources of spiritual comfort. In wrestling 
with some of you, to lead you to Christ, or to bring 
you out afterward into a clearer and sweeter experience 
of the love, and light, and liberty of the Gospel, I 
have gained more wisdom and insight from you, when 
you knew it not, than I could possibly render back. 
In that energetic and unwearying zeal for all good 
works which some among yon have signally shown. 
my own feebler faith and more languid enthusiasm lias 



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many times been bathed and refreshed. From the gen- 
erous readiness with which you so often have re- 
sponded to appeals for the furtherance of the truth, I 
have learned to trust more frankly and implicitly that 
central principle of Christian benevolence which is the 
source of all best deeds, and that supreme hold which 
the Gospel possesses on those who once have felt its 
power. And when, more than once, I have ministered 
to those whose eyes were closing on all scenes of Time, 
and have gone up with them, with clasped hands, al- 
most unto the heavenly gates — until their grasp loosen- 
ed from mine, to catch that of the angels who took my 
place, — it has been surely my shame and sin if I have 
not brought back from thence a conviction, a faith, a 
hope of glory, which have thereafter flashed as a light 
and burned as a flame through prayer and speech ! 

I thank you here for your ministry to me. Greater 
than mine to you it hath been. And often the 
thoughts which have moved you most have been but 
the echo of those which you, or others whom you 
loved, had stirred unknowing within my soul. 

And I entreat the same ministry still, in the days, 
if it shall be the months or the years, which are to 
come. Especially I entreat it of those of you who 
have just entered the Church, led home to Christ in 
some degree through my imperfect ministrations. To 
you, my dear Friends, — whose hope is my joy, whose 
progress my prayer, and for whose welfare there is 



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nothing I possess too precious to be given, — to you I 
may most appropriately repeat, what Paul said so ear- 
nestly to the recent converts at Thessalonica : " Now 
clo we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord !" 

The ministry of those who have been here before 
you — some of whom tarry with us still, while some 
are not, for God has called them — has been in the 
main very noble and helpful; with imperfections 
marking it, doubtless; with something of error, and 
something of sin, mingling entwined with its choicest 
activities ; but still on the whole unusually full of faith, 
of freedom, of Christian courage, of love to the Mas- 
fer, and of consecrated zeal. Let your future ministry 
of spiritual life, to the Church, to your pastor, and to 
all whom the Church and its pastor affect, be one still 
nobler and more renewing ! 

Let the central name of Christian love burn in your 
hearts with an undying constancy and pureness. Let 
your sweet charity, and patience, and peace, breathe as 
a fragrance throughout this enlarging society of be- 
lievers. Let the sustaining and heavenly hope, which 
comes through Christ, impart its beauty to your 
character always, and shine with clear celestial lustre 
throughout your life. Let your self-devoted labors tor 
others reach out to them, and bring both them and us 
a blessing. Take what of influence from the spheres 
unseen yon here, may meet, and make it felt through- 
out the circles which you affect. Seek first of all in 






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yourselves, at all times, the richest, brightest, most 
abounding experience of all that which the Spirit of 
God will work, through the Gospel, in the hearts and 
minds of those who receive him; of all which study, 
prayer, and effort, beneficent action, and the wisest self- 
discipline, can bring to the soul through Christ its 
Lord ; of all which God imparts in his grace to those 
whom he chooses for his own. And then let this be 
spontaneously revealed, in endurance and in action, in 
your life and on your lips, in all the circumstances in 
which you may be placed. 

Then shall you be partakers on earth of the joys to 
be wholly known in Heaven ! Then shall you walk, 
throughout these years which I trust stretch before 
you, as expectant not only, but inwardly assured, — 
yea, conscious already, — of the glory to come ! Then 
shall you teach all those around you, and me among 
them, while here you tarry, of noblest themes, of high- 
est attainments, of things above ! And then shall your 
influence, outlasting your life, be still as vitally at 
work in this Church, through my words or through 
those of others, when you have ascended to your rest ! 

The eyes which I have seen hitherto, closing in 
death, with triumph in them, — they shine upon me 
still as I remember them ! They shine to-day, un- 
known by you, on you through me ! The voices that 
here have touched my heart, with their penitence or 
their praise, — they shall continue to touch yours, and 



56 

those of others, as long as I here fulfil my ministry ! 
The examples of fortitude, resignation, submission, or 
of a manly Christian resolve, a glowing zeal, a con- 
tagious beneficence, which I have here seen, — they are 
not lost; they are not silent. They are lifted from the 
pews. They are gathered here today from chamber 
and street, from counting-room and from grave-side. 
They find a voice always on my poor words. And 
they, and they chiefly, now give to those words what- 
ever of worth or of weight thev have. 

Let your lives so speak, then, in like manner here- 
after ; and your example and spirit so testify ; and your 
very death, irradiated from above, become the almoner, 
to those whom you leave, of spiritual life. So shall 
he who teaches you here in coming years, whoever he 
may be, be able to say to you, to the end of his minis- 
try, as I say now to those into whose blessed fellow, 
ship in the Gospel you recently are incorporate, ' Now 
do we live, because ye are faithful !' And so, through 
Eternity, shall that vast, subtile, spiritual influence 
which emanates from you, continue to be felt, in souls 
hereafter born to God, while you rejoice before him in 
his glory ! 

Thanks to His Name for the present hope which fills 
our hearts, which shall then have expired in eternal 
fruition ! Thanks to His Name for the kindness and 
grace which have brought us together, and have knit 
us through love 4 in this fellowship of faith, of mutual 



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helpfulness, and of a coming immortal joy ! May no 
one, reckoned among us now, be wanting in the day 
when God maketh up his jewels ! May no one who 
has confessed the Lord here — before the table crowned 
with the memorials of his sacrifice and cross — be left 
out from his Marriage Supper ! But may we all, whose 
hearts have touched and quickened each other, amid 
these pleasant courts below, walk together in white, be- 
neath the swell of saintly songs and seraph trumpets, 
when all the ransomed, of every land, are gathered 
by Christ in his resplendent heavenly city ! 

And unto Him who died, who lives, and through 
whom we may live forever, be all the praise ! Amen. 



1. THE WORK OP WINNING SOULS, A WISE ONE: 

AND 

2. THE SPIRITUAL HELP WHICH A CHURCH GIVES TO ITS MINISTER. 



TWO SERMONS 



PREACHED IN 



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BROOKLYN, N. Y., 



November 18, 1866, 



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By RICHAED S. STORES. Jr., D. D., 



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